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General Counsellors

When Father General is in Rome, he begins every day meeting with his “General Counsellors”.
The election of those counsellors shows a balance of power between the newly elected Superior General and the General Congregation who has elected him. Fr. General is the one who appoints (now nine) Regional Assistants, and several other General Counsellors.
The General Congregation elects four Assistants “ad providentiam”. Their function is to assist the Superior General on behalf of the whole Society. The assistance called for deals with external matters “such as clothing, food and any expenditure touching upon the General’s person”, preventing him “from going beyond measure in labours or excessive severity”, and attending “to his soul in case necessity might arise”.
Among the General Counsellors there is a Counsellor for Formation and Fr. General’s Delegate, responsible for the governance of the international Jesuit houses in Rome.

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Assistants "ad providentiam"

Fr. Lisbert D’Souza
Fr. Lisbert D’Souza
(Bombay Province, India)
Regional Assistant for South Asia

Fr. James E. Grummer
Fr. James E. Grummer
(Wisconsin Province, USA)
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Fr. Federico Lombardi
Fr. Federico Lombardi
(Italian Province)


Fr. Gabriel Ignacio Rodríguez
Fr. Gabriel Ignacio Rodríguez
(Colombia Province)
Regional Assistant for Latin America North



 

Other Counsellors

Fr. Joaquín Barrero Díaz
Fr. Joaquín Barrero Díaz
(Spanish Province)
Regional Assistant for Southern Europe and Superior of the Curia community

Fr. Arturo Sosa
Fr. Arturo Sosa
(Venezuela Province)
Delegate for the Interprovincial Jesuit Communities in Rome



Fr. Daniel Patrick Huang
Fr. Daniel Patrick Huang
(Philippine Province)
Regional Assistant for Asia Pacific

Fr. Antoine Kerhuel
Fr. Antoine Kerhuel
(French Province)
Regional Assistant for Western Europe



Fr. Tomasz Kot
Fr. Tomasz Kot
(Greater Poland Province)
Regional Assistant for Central and Eastern Europe

Fr. Fratern Masawe
Fr. Fratern Masawe
(Eastern Africa Province)
Regional Assistant for Africa



Fr. Miguel Cruzado
Fr. Miguel Cruzado
(Peru Province)
Regional Assistant for Latin America South

Fr. José Cecilio Magadia
Fr. José Cecilio Magadia
(Philippine Province)
Assistant for Formation

Fr. Douglas W. Marcouiller
Fr. Douglas W. Marcouiller
(UCS Province, USA)
Regional Assistant for the USA